News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. Occupying a 125,000 […]
By: Tariq Khamis Book review: Early twentieth century studies of the Islamic city take an Orientalist approach that fails to understand the true rationale behind the cities architectural heritage. In […]
The construction works towards the World Cup Qatar 2022 has brought a sad and growing number of workers killed. These fatalities have no name; His death does not make news, […]
By Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed The built environment is a product of socio-economic, cultural, and political forces. Every urban system has its own ‘genetic code’, expressed in architectural and spatial forms […]
Islamic or not? That is not the question. It is about the relationship of us and our experience and our body to our surroundings. It’s about passing through place. about wandering through space and time, and about borders and crossings, and exchanges.
We will try to answer a number of points that we receive in a dally bases about the scoop of this website. The recent surge of interest in contemporary visual, […]
Arabic calligraphy, is the artistic practice of handwriting, or calligraphy, and by extension, of bookmaking Architecture, is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. introduction for an […]
Dar HI, an eco-lodge on the tip of Northern Africa, in the south Tunisian desert. The boutique hotel is the second collaboration (the first is a guest property in Nice) between French […]
Architects: Senan Abdelqader Location: Jerusalem, Palestine Project Area: 1700 sqm Photographs: Amit Giron
The old and Traditional areas in the Arab world cities are characterized by their complex urban fabric, which resulted in a cumulative process of activities over time. And In order […]
Everyone agrees that the Arabic fresh and up to date architectural cross cultural ideas comes from Beirut, Where the architectural education is the finest on the Arab world, strongly affected […]
Published: 7/06/2010 from BBC.com http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/180491/phoenician-or-arab-a-never-ending-debate-in-lebanon “I am a Phoenician, not an Arab,” asserts 20-year-old Lebanese student Rebecca Yazbeck when asked to define her identity, with nothing more than conviction to […]
Here as the centre of the world (Lucy Cotter) As Edward Said suggested, the widening of cultural horizons has all too often had Europe firmly in the privileged centre. The […]
This is an article from TT30 member Ghanem Nuseibeh. TT30 is a thinktank of 30 members of Youth Organization of Club of Rome. They established a project called “Sustainable Dubai”. […]
Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. Its impressive […]
Art & Architecture in the Arab world 